The International Criminal Court today released arrest warrants issued against six members of a Libyan militia on war crimes charges. In 2023, ICC Prosecutor Karim Khan said that arrest warrants had been issued by war crimes judges in Libya since 2011, but the targets of those warrants and the specific charges were not published. The warrants released today showed that six people, all Libyan nationals, are accused of war crimes, including murder, torture, abuse and sexual violence, and some also of rape. After the fall of Muammar Gaddafi’s regime in 2011, Libya descended into chaos and is now ruled by two warring factions. One in western Libya based in Tripoli and Prime Minister Abdelhamid Dbeiba, a government recognized by the UN, and another in eastern Libya, where the Parliament is based and linked to the camp of Marshal Khalifa Haftar, whose stronghold is in Benghazi. The fierce fighting is over […]
Source: News Beast
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